Show Business: A Melancholy Business

"It has now been made crystal clear that the American people hold the
networks responsible for what appears on their schedules." With that
belated recognition of the obvious, CBS President Frank Stanton
announced that his network will no longer permit "games whose major
appeal is the winning of large sums of money or lavishly expensive
prizes." CBS followed through by axing The Big Payoff, Top Dollar and
Name That Tune.

But rival NBC wanted none of that solution. Suggesting archly that to be
consistent CBS would have to drop such petty-cash guessing games as
I've Got a Secret and What's My Line?,...